Division Director    Bob Vallio  ◊  W6RGG
The ARRL is a 501(c)(3) corporation which has its headquarters in Newington, CT.  Your elected Directors serve on the corporation's Board of Directors, without compensation, and are responsible for financial and administrative policy decisions in the day-to-day, and long range operations of the  corporation.  Directors serve for a three-year term, and are voted upon by the members in their geographic division.  They attend meetings of the Board, and also Board Committees of which they are members.   "I invite you to write, call, or e-mail me directly, with your questions or concerns."

Pacific Division Leadership Meeting: (December 5, 2009) ► Photos
Bob Vallio
Bob Vallio, W6RGG
 Vice Director          Jim Tiemstra  ◊  K6JAT
ARRL President Joel Harrison, with the approval of the ARRL Ethics and Elections Committee, has appointed Jim Tiemstra, K6JAT, to serve the remainder of Andy Oppel's, N6AJO, term as Pacific Division Vice Director. Jim is an attorney in private practice in Oakland. He plans to attend the Board meeting next month.

Jim was deeply honored to be chosen to fill the vacancy left by Andy Oppel's resignation, and because Amateur Radio certainly has enriched and added value to many aspects of his life, he is elated to have the opportunity to contribute something back to the hobby. Jim believes that the future of Amateur Radio is at a critical crossroads which will involve our appeal to youth. (Jim and his XYL, Lilah, KE6EHD, have twin boys, Robert, and Matthew, who is licensed as KI6IHP.) E-mail Jim ►k6jat@arrl.org.
Jim Tiemstra
Jim Tiemstra, K6JAT

The ARRL Board of Directors held its 2010 Annual Meeting on January 15-16 in Windsor, Connecticut.  Directors, Vice Directors and ARRL Board officers were in attendance.  The meeting was preceded on Thursday, January 14 with meetings of the Administration and Finance Committee and the Programs and Services Committee. 

Board Ramps Up Focus on EmComm Issues, Looks to League's Centennial: The ARRL Board of Directors held its 2010 Annual Meeting on January 15-16 in Windsor, Connecticut... (more)

Photo by Steve Ford, WB8IMY, QST Editor and Publications Manager for ARRL
Geography of the Pacific Division
 
The Pacific Division of the ARRL includes the State of California from the Oregon border on the north to the lower end of the San Joaquin Valley (Kern Co.); the counties of Alpine and Mono along the Nevada border east of the Sierra Nevada mountains and south of Lake Tahoe; and the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, and Monterey along the Pacific Ocean south of San Francisco. The inland counties along the Nevada border south of Mono County and the coastal counties south of Monterey County are part of the Southwestern Division.

 
In addition to the part of California described above, the Pacific Division includes all of the States of Nevada and Hawaii and the U. S. Pacific Ocean islands to the west, such as American Samoa, Guam, Saipan, and the Mariana Islands. U. S. military bases and other facilities using AP ZIP Codes are also part of the Pacific Division.

 
Our Pacific Division is divided into seven Sections, and we invite you to check out the Section for your location. You'll find radio clubs, RACES/ARES activities, Hamfests, community service opportunities, radio-oriented youth groups, and much more.
What is Ham Radio?
A housewife in North Carolina makes friends over the radio with another ham in Lithuania. An Ohio teenager uses his computer to upload a digital chess move to an orbiting space satellite, where it's retrieved by a fellow chess enthusiast in Japan. An aircraft engineer in Florida participating in a "DX contest" swaps his call sign and talks to hams in 100 different countries during a single weekend. In California, volunteers save lives as part of their involvement in an emergency response. And from his room in Chicago, a ham's pocket-sized hand-held radio allows him to talk to friends in the Carolinas. This unique mix of fun, public service and convenience is the distinguishing characteristic of Amateur Radio. Although hams get involved for many reasons, they all have in common a basic knowledge of radio technology and operating principles, and pass an examination for the FCC license to operate on radio frequencies known as the "Amateur Bands." These bands are radio frequencies reserved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for use by hams at intervals from just above the AM broadcast band all the way up into extremely high microwave frequencies.  
 
If you have a connection faster than Dial-up:
Listen to this spot, What Is Amateur Radio? (1.3MB)  or View this spot, Take A Moment -- Imagine... (13.7MB) 
or View this version, Take A Moment -- Imagine...   (9.1MB)
 

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